noun · feminine
fatnas
Strong’sG5336
a manger, feeding-trough
stem fatn-4 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
φάτνη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX for אֵבוּס, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5336 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfat'-nay
a crib (for fodder)
Fromfrom πατέομαι (to eat);
King Jamesmanager, stall.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
manger, crib, [ἵππους] ἀτίταλλ᾽ ἐπὶ φάτνῃ NT+8th c.BC+; φάτναι Ζηνὸς, of the manger of Pegasus, Refs 5th c.BC+: also of oxen, ὥς τίς τε κατέκτανε βοῦν ἐπὶ φ. Refs 8th c.BC+
2 βοῦς ἐπὶ φ., proverbial of ease and comfort, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐν τῇ φ. κύων 'the dog in the manger', Refs 2nd c.AD+; θεραπεύειν τὴν φ. τινός to court one who feeds you, Refs 2nd c.AD+ to return to their old haunts, Refs 4th c.BC+
II ={φάτνωμα}Refs 3rd c.BC+
III socket of tooth, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV the Manger, name of the nebula (star-cluster) between the ὄνοι in Cancer, Refs 4th c.BC+ in Attic and Delian Inscrr., Refs: bhndh, cf. Sanskrit badhnāti 'tie', Celt. benn 'wicker chariot'.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | fatnas | fatnais |
| object accusative | fatnan | fatnain |
| direct address vocative | fatnar | fatnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | fatnau1×φάτνης | fatnaiu |
| to, for dative | fatna3×φάτνῃ | fatnai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
fatna is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
fatnau“stall”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 13:15… autou ē ton onon apo tau fatnau kai apagarantos potizatō?… his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it to water?
fatna“manger”to, fordative singular3×
Luke 2:7… sparganata auton kai anaklinata auton en fatna, dioti ouk ate autoi topos en …… cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for …
Luke 2:12… heuriskavi brefem sparganorēntem kai keiorōntem en fatna.… swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
Luke 2:16… kai tem brefem keiorōntem en ta fatna;… Baby, who was lying in the manger.